How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

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03 March 2021 5,360 2 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

The procedure compute?

02 March 2021 5,204 3 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 View

What is the best concentration of cDNA to be used for qPCR?

I have synthesised cDNA from 500ng/ul of RNA. The concentration of the cDNA Is about 5000ng/ul. Should I dilute my cDNA or just use it as it is for my qPCR? I usually use 2ul of cDNA for a 20ul...

24 February 2021 8,618 3 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

QPCR reaction efficiency with odd results what does this indicate?

I am working on a CFX 96 machine to determine reaction efficiency of my gene of interest. After performing a serial dilution of my cDNA template, I was able to find great reaction efficiencies for...

23 February 2021 809 3 View

Could not amplify CD28 and CD3z ectodomain from cDNA of Jurkat Cells ?

For my experiments, I have to express ectodomains of human CD28 and CD3z. As a source, I extracted RNA from Jurkat cells and verified the quality of RNA on the gel. I, then, prepared cDNA using...

23 February 2021 7,051 4 View

Any Homemade Organic Synthesis Practices?

Hi everyone, I am a teacher of Heterocycles Synthesis, Is there a home practice that you recommend for undergraduate students? A simulator would also be useful Due to the pandemic, students...

18 February 2021 2,769 4 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View

Unable to detect a truncated protein variant, but I can observe a truncated cDNA from Sanger?

Hi, so basically... I am trying to mimic a clinically observed condition wherein a frame-shift mutation happens only at one allele of the patients, giving rise to a truncated variant which evades...

17 February 2021 1,130 6 View